Education

It's Back to School Time! Time for the editorialists and the Tea Party and Barack Obama's Education Secretary Arne Duncan to rip into the people who dare teach in …

In today's On the News segment: Shell Oil has been drilling in the Arctic since Sunday despite documents revealing problems with its blowout response systems, casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson …

"If it does not prevail, you can be certain that the template for the attack on the union will be carried out across the country against other teachers’ unions …

With school budgets cut to the bone, every dollar counts, and each absent child represents lost state funding.

More electives. Support staff for students who need it. Fair compensation. Recall rights.

The 30,000-strong Chicago Teachers Union strikes for the first time in a quarter century.

Some Chicago students are already at the forefront of the fight against privatizing education.

Two pending National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) cases on graduate student workers provide an opportunity to develop effective strategies to respond to attacks on employee rights under National Labor …

When we heard Todd Akin's remarks about legitimate rape, we knew immediately: that guy needs some accurate, evidence-based words and pictures about gender and sexuality, stat.

The Department of Education paid $1.4 billion to collection agencies to hunt down defaulters, which includes nearly one in six borrowers.